Penciling-guide.



. w. E. AVYCOCK.

PENCILING GUIDE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 15. 1915..

L1 MAM. Y Patented 1160. 11, 1915.

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WILLIAM E. AYCOCK, OF MOULTRIE, GEORGIA.

PENCILING-GUIDE.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec. 14, 19115.

Application filed February 15, 1915. Serial No. 8,372.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. AYoooK, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Moultrie, in the county of Colquit and State of Georgia, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Penciling- Guides, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to an improved penciling guide for use in painting or penciling the bases of the grooves between the outstanding faces of scratch joint brickwork, and particularly grooved wood surfaces in imitation of such brickwork, my object being to provide a guide for a paintbrush of any suitable character by which the faces of the grooves may be well and quickly painted without danger of painting or smearing with paint, the sides of the grooves which are the edges of the outstanding faces in imitation of brick. The particular reasons for, and advantages of, such a device will be better understood from the following description in which reference is made to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which-- Figure l is a side elevation illustrating the practical application of my invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken therethrough substantially on line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is a bottom plan view of one end of the guide; Fig. 4 is a side elevation of that end of the guide shown in Fig. 3; and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the opposite end of the guide, looking from the bottom thereof.

Referring now to Fig. 1, I have shown in elevation a section of a wood surface with longitudinal and transverse grooves A and A therein for the purpose of imitating scratch joint brickwork, this surface being composed of a plurality of longitudinal strips A as seen in Fig. 2, in lapped joint relation, providing rectangular outstanding faces A which represent the brick. In painting such a surface, it is usual for the entire surface to be painted a solid brick color, that is, the protruding oblong faces representing the brick, and also their side edges a and the bases of the grooves A and A. Thereafter, it is necessary to pencil the bases of the grooves A and A with a dark color, usually black, and in so doing, care must be taken that none of this dark paint is applied to the sides of the grooves, which are the side edges a just referred to, in order that the protruding faces A may stand out in bold relief,

which would not be the case were these side edges painted the same color as the bases of the grooves.

Inasmuch as the operation of painting'the bases of the grooves A and A alone, is a difficult and slow task, I preferably provide a guide, by which this operation can be well and quickly accomplished without danger of painting the side edges 0; or accidentally smearing paint thereon. have shown in the several figures, consists of a pair of spaced parallel side strips B and B, which are slightly greater in width than the depth of the grooves A and A, soithat when disposed in these grooves, the outer edges of the said side strips B and B proj ect beyond the outer faces of the oblong proj ecting surfaces A in imitation of the brick. These side strips B and B are bent into the This guide as I parallel relation above stated and as shown,

from a single piece of material, being integrally united at one end by a curved strip B as clearly seen by reference to Figs. 1 and 5, one of the side strips, namely, th'e side strip B, being provided at its opposite end with an integrally struck-up section B which is bent around and secured to the corresponding end of the strip B. Thus by the bent end strips B and B the side strips are rigidly spaced apart in parallel relation, this spacing being to accord with the width of the grooves A and A, which is uniform.

Along their outer edges the spaced side strips B and B are provided with outwardly flaring wings B and B these wings being tapering and gradually narrowed toward the curved end strip B the opposite or enlarged ends of the wings, adjacent the opposite end of the guide, being of substantial width so as to form a handle by which the operator may grasp and manipulate the guide, moving the same as a whole along in the longitudinal grooves A, or disposing and removing the same from the vertical grooves A, it being understood that the same type of guide is utilized for penciling both the longitudinal and vertical grooves, except that in the case of the vertical grooves the guide must be of considerably reduced length from that shown for the longitudinal grooves. Furthermore, inasmuch as the curved connecting strips B and B extend into the grooves and across the same, I have recessed or cut away the inner edges of these connecting strips, as shown at B particularly in Figs. 2, 3, 4c, and 5, in order to ob viate the disadvantage, which would otherwise be present in permitting the inner edges of such connecting strips to drag the paint as the guide is shifted along in the longitudinal grooves A, during the painting operation. Thus in operation, the guide wings B and B respectively guide the brush used into the space between the side strips B and B which are disposed within the grooves ofthe surface to be painted, in the manner best shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the operator grasping and holding the guide, by means of the enlarged ends of these wings, and utilizing such ends as handles in shifting the guide thereafter. The side strips B and B, during the painting operation, effectively serve to prevent either the painting of the side edges 6; of the protruding surfaces A or accidentally smearing paint thereon, and the painting of the bases of the grooves V A and A may be thus quickly and effectively accomplished.

1.- A penciling guide of the character de scribed comprising a pair of spaced parallel side strips, formed of a single piece of material and having an integral bent connecti-ng strip at one end, one of said side strips having a section of its material struck-up adjacent its opposite end and secured to the adjacent end of the other side strip, whereby with the integral connecting strip the said side strips may be rigidly held in spaced parallel relation, the otheredges of the said side strips having outwardly flaring wings tapering therealong, and the enlarged ends ofiwhich form a handle, the said integral Copies of this patent may be obtained for bent connecting strip and the said struck-up section having their inner edges recessed for the purpose described.

2. A penciling guide of the character described, comprising a pair of parallel side strips, bent from a single piece of material and having an integral bent strip' connecting the same at one end, one of said side strips having a section thereof struck up adjacent its opposite end and secured to the other side strip, whereby to rigidly space the said side strips apart.

3. A penciling guide of the character described, comprising a pair of spaced parallel side strips, having a bent strip integrally uniting them at one end, the inner edge of which bent strip is recessed for the purpose described.

4:. A penciling guide of the character described, comprising a pair of parallel spaced side strips, having flaring guide wings along their outer edges, forming a handle at one end thereof, and having a bent strip connecting the opposite end thereof and having its inner edge recessed for the purpose described.

5. A penciling guide of the character described, comprising a strip of material bent to form a pair of parallel spaced apart side plates, said side plates having flaring guide wings forming a handle whereby the guide may be grasped and manipulated in use.

VILLIAM E. AYCOCK.

lVitnesses MYRQN G. CLEAR, SOLON G. KEMON.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

